Effective learning and teaching in law

Effective learning and teaching in law, edited by the UKCLE team, was published in April 2002. Part of a series on learning and teaching in higher education, the book aims to provide practical and authoritative guidance and advice on the successful teaching of law.

The book is made up of nine chapters, with coverage including assessment, the design and planning of learning activities, the use of IT in legal education and developing learning environments:

1. Revising legal education – Tracey Varnava and Roger Burridge (UKCLE)
2. Learning law and legal expertise by experience – Roger Burridge (UKCLE)
3. Diversifying assessment and developing judgement in legal education – Karen Hinett (UKCLE) and Alison Bone (University of Brighton)
4. Negotiating the learning process with electronic resources – Paul Maharg (University of Strathclyde) and Abdul Paliwala (UKCLE)
5. Responsibility and ethics in professional legal education – Nigel Duncan (Inns of Court School of Law)
6. The Human Rights Act and the UK law school – Andrew Williams (University of Warwick)
7. Law teaching for other programmes – Linda Byles and Ruth Soetendorp (University of Bournemouth)
8. The new advocacy: implications for legal education and teaching practice – Julia Macfarlane (University of Windsor, Canada)
9. Space, time and (e)motions of learning law – Abdul Paliwala (UKCLE)

Ordering details

Order online from Routledge Education.

Effective learning and teaching in law
R Burridge, K Hinett, A Paliwala, T Varnava (eds)
ISBN 978-0-7494-3568-4
paperback, 225 pages
£30.99

A staple for everyone concerned with teaching and learning practices for law…a signpost for the future of legal education.

— Lorna E Gillies (University of Leicester) – review in JILT 2002(3)

An impressive blend of educational theory and the analysis of institutional pressures and politics.

— Nick Jackson (University of Kent and National Teaching Fellow) in the ILT Newsletter Autumn 2002

Last Modified: 16 July 2010